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so one of the most respected govern >> one of the most respected governors in the country, brilliant guy, he made a lot of money and then he said let me run for office. he is from north dakota and has done an incredible job. he has become a friend of mine. doug. [applause] >> when i became governor, it was the same night that donald trump was elected in november 2016 and the world changed. i have had an opportunity to serve under joe biden and donald trump. when donald trump was president, our nation was safe and it was prosperous. biden. his weakness has led to joe biden's weakness has led to our adversaries like iran and

russia making hundreds of billions of dollars selling oil to china. national security, there is one candidate in this race that understands how to make our nation more secure and prosperous. it is the person who did it when he was president before, donald j. trump. [applause] biden has been a disaster on the economy, been a disaster on energy, and he's been a he has been a disaster on national security. under donald j. trump, our country was safer and we were absolutely economically better off. joe biden's energy policies are empowering our -- they are raising the prices of what you pay. we need donald trump. america needs donald trump. and the reason why we do is because he's the individual that how to solve these problems. he how to keep america safe. he knows how to make us more

prosperous. and i want to tell you, i've got an ask for all of you in new hampshire. i've met a lot you campaigning around the state. but the ask this, tamara, you've got to get out and bring your friends. you've got to bring everybody in vote because the eyes of the world are on new hampshire tomorrow. they're going to be looking at how you vote. we end primary tomorrow in new hampshire with a fantastic win and what it's not just america. it's every foreign dictator. it's terrorist group is going to be rethinking plans when they know we've got a strong and experienced president who will stand to them and bring america and make america great again. thank you. i never thought i'd say that. and can you how are you going to see. i hi, how are you? how it what always?

well, i'm on executive transition, so i was here for that. and of course, i talked to the president elect on the phone and great meet with him today. and i can tell you he is out there doing great. thanks is actually he's he's actually working very, very hard round the clock non to surround himself with the brightest and best people. i'm very proud to be a member of the transition team and for you tonight i'm very pleased to welcome a man who has been an incredible champion for. so many of these values that we all share and we've shared them for a long. i don't think too many of you people have heard of him. he's very low key. he's a very low key person, but he's highly respected. he is a great person. i've him for so long, for the past months. robert f kennedy jr.

and i have. made made. an. know. and he deserves it. he deserves it.

for the past 16 months. bobby has run an extraordinary campaign for president of the united states. i know because he also went me a couple of times. i didn't like it. and i mean this sincerely. he been allowed to enter the democrat primary. he would have easily joe biden, but they wouldn't let him in. they put up rules. i've never said rules like he had to have 65% of the vote in order to run, know little things like that. his candidacy has inspired millions and millions of americans, raised critical issues that have been too long ignored in this and brought together people across the political spectrum in a positive campaign ground it in the american values of his father, robert kennedy. a great man and his uncle

president, john f kennedy. and i know that they are looking down right now and they are very, very proud of bobby. i'm proud of bobby. you want to know the truth. and i don't think i've ever introduced anyone that got applause. like he just got. i must tell you, i don't think. that's true. i don't think i ever introduced any that got applause like that. oh, amazing. it's true.

amazing. soon after i was. can't even believe i have to say this. nearly assassinated in last month. bobby called me to express his best wishes. he knows firsthand the risk incurred by leaders who stand up to the corrupt political establishment when stand up, you bring on some trouble for yourself. but you have to do what's right? you have to do what's right for the country. i will tell you, we are in this to do what's right for the country. that's one thing i can tell you. he lost his father and uncle in service to our country and bobby himself was subject to repeated threats to his safety during the course of his campaign, while being denied protection by the biden administration. and this is a tribute in honor

of bobby. i am announcing tonight upon my i will establish a new independent presidential commission on assassination attempts. and they will be tasked with releasing all of the remaining documents pertaining to the assassination of president john f kennedy. and they will also conduct a rigorous review of the attack last month. but i tell you, i have never more people ask me, please, sir, release the documents on the kennedy assassination and we're going to do that. and i also want to salute bobby's decades, work as an

advocate for the health of our families and our children. nobody's done more millions and millions of americans who want clean air, clean water and a healthy nation have concerns about toxins in our environment and pesticides in our food. that's today. i'm repeating my pledge to establish a panel of top experts working with bobby to investigate what is causing the decades increasing chronic health problems and childhood diseases. including autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity infertility and many more. we want every child in america to grow up and to live a long and healthy life. so i just want to ask bobby to speak for a little while. i'll stand aside. i'm going stand beside.

but i can only tell you i've known him a long time. we've been a little bit on the opposite side of the equation. i will say this is a brilliant i still think of him as young. he's not that young. i always call him young, but he's not that young. but he is a phenomenal a phenomenal man who loves the people of this country as much as anybody can love the people of this country. so, bobby, please say a few words. thank you very much. thank you you. thank you. president trump. thank you all.

i've few hours after assassination attempt at butler i got a call from a safe food advocate named kelly maines, who's been fighting for many years to try to end the corruption at cdc and fda and usda. and these institutions, these regulatory agencies are actually run by the big food processing companies, big ag and the chemical companies, and they're supposed to regulate and. he said to me that he'd been advising me many years and on my campaign and he told me that he was also advising president trump and asked if i would talk

president trump. and i said of course. and about a few minutes later, i got a call from the president and we talked we had a very good talk and he invited to come see him. and i went to many minneapolis on. we met again a couple of weeks later in florida and we talked about not about the things that separate us. we don't agree on everything, but on the values and the issues and bind us together. one of the issues that he talked about was having safe food and ending that chronic disease. our children are now the unhealthy sick children in the world. don't you want a healthy.

and don't you want the chemicals out of our food. and don't you want the regular tory agencies to be free from? corporate corruption. and that's what president trump told me that he wanted, he also told me that he wanted to end the grip of the neo cons on u.s. foreign policy. he said he didn't want any more 200 trillion a $200 billion wars in ukraine that we could use that money back in the united states. and the safest the best way to build a safe america is to rebuild our industrial and rebuild the middle class in this

country. and don't you want a president who's going to get us out of the wars, who's going to rebuild the middle class and country. and he told me that he wanted to end the censorship it caused all basis of american democracy is the free flow of information and we know that a government that can silence its opponents has license, any kind of atrocity. yeah. and you think of any time you can look back in history and say that people were censoring were the good guys there are always the bad guys because it's always the first app down that slippery slope to totalitarianism.

and don't you want to press and who's going to protect america's freedom arms. and who is going to protect us against totalitarianism totalitarianism. and i want to ask you again, don't you want to save environment for your children. oh, you want it? oh, you want it? no. the food that you're feeding is not filled with chemicals that are going to give them cancer and chronic disease. and don't you want a president that's going to make america

healthy again. argue over it very much. and god bless you and god bless america. good afternoon. thank you. thank very much. i want you guys to know that, back at the republican convention and cleveland, i had this amazing already and it started out with these words. i'm very proud to accept your. unfortunately, that speech never got delivered because over the course of the past year, voters in this country buy record numbers selected someone else, someone who by the way, as i'll

be honest with you, what my first choice i was my first choice in a year ago. donald trump was my opponent. and we were debating each other. i will tell you this, at every one of those debates, i noticed that a lot the other candidates were taking on donald trump. i saying terrible things about the guy and they were picking fights with him. and i'd when they a fight with him. and i'm going to tell you something i may have an arkansas education, but this old boy is smart enough to figure out that when you pick on donald trump and get in a fight with him, you're the dog that's going to limp out of that fight when it's all over. one of the reasons i'm here today is because i'm convinced

we need somebody who will fight for america to be on top again, rather than disrespect acted and disregarded across the world. i'm also aware that a lot my fellow believers and evangelicals, you know, sometimes say, well, you know, is donald trump like one of us? well, let me try to be as blunt as i can be. he may not sit in the front of a church like yours every sunday. he may not be as expressive or as loud about own faith or convictions about things like being pro-life, which he is. and if he wasn't, i wouldn't be standing here today. but folks, some people will eat their soup a little louder than

others. it doesn't mean that the soup tastes better. but we are in a pivotal in american history. i know donald trump fairly well. i knew him before we were in the presidential race against each other. i've known him for several years by working in new york, know him from having interviewed him several times for fox news. but even better i know hillary clinton for over 40 years and this is not a heavy lift. this is not hard for me not only to say i'll vote for him, but that i will go out and campaign vigorously for because this is about the future america. if donald trump gets elected, i've already seen the list of people he's likely to appoint to the supreme court, and i'm real

happy about that list. i also know the kind of people hillary clinton would put on that court, and i'm scared to death of that list. i know what kind of people donald trump will put in the major agencies. you see, a lot of people don't understand this. but yes, a president has a lot of power and a lot of influence and does a lot of things every day. but i'll tell you what a president does that is far beyond the personality or even the executive skills of that individual. it's who he employs and appoints. and there are tens of thousands of people that he either directly appoints or employs that actually set the tone of government, not just the immediate of his term, but in some cases many, many years afterwards. who do you think will appoint someone for the epa? the doj, department of commerce the state department, the department of defense? that better reflects your values. this is easy, folks. this is not hard. and there is a dramatic

difference between the hillary clinton that we have seen time and again. look us right in the eye. and lie to us and a person who sometimes tells the truth. so bluntly there are a lot of folks just can't handle it. i can handle the unfiltered truth a whole lot better than i can. the hidden secret agenda of people who don't know how to tell the truth and worse, don't know how to tell the difference. it is extraordinarily important that in this election we get it right. every four years we say it's the most important election of our lifetime, and i think it does more important each time. at this time, folks, i mess with you. it's the most important of our lifetime. and here's the reason it's not

about what we say what we do on sunday, although a lot is at stake. it really is. but america is more than just the place where we live. if people anywhere on this. become oppressed and flee for their very lives, the one place they feel that they can come is america. i talked to a police in miami early this morning whose father fled cuba's castro castro's cuba and he came here and he told his son and raised his son, who is born here in this country and is now a police officer for almost 30 years. and he said him the reason that we have to keep america is because if something happens to we have no place to run.

folks, this election is this simple. it is about protecting the last castle on earth where freedom lives. and i believe that donald trump will be the person who in that last castle will make sure that the united states of america protect, preserve and pass on that freedom that we cherish to the next generation. please join me. welcoming, i believe, next president of the united states, donald j. trump. how our new york. i have a message for the mainstream media and i can say

this as a born and raised new yorker. new york is trump country. wow. it is to be here in the icon madison square garden. president trump has been talking about this rally for years. what a way to kick off the final week of the most epic campaign to save. every election, we say, is the most important in our lifetime. but this one really is. no matter where you go, whether it's in new york city, upstate new york, or in any of the swing states, people understand there is so much at stake. and it is we the people when we vote for president donald j. trump, we the people will say,

america. just look at the that kamala harris and joe biden have brought to our nation and have brought right here to new york. the border crisis. illegals swarming our streets taking billions of. our hard earned taxpayer dollars. all because kamala harris is joe biden's open border czar. she owns border crisis. she created it or the inflation? the highest rate of inflation in our lifetime. and you know who was the deciding vote for joe biden's inflation expansion act? kamala harris. and the cry crisis democrat crats are the party of defund police. and kamala harris has turned her back on our men and women in

blue new yorkers support our police and we will always back the blue. and then take a look around the world. what is happening? you have the catalyst traffic war withdrawal from afghanistan. kamala harris was the last person in the room advising joe biden that horrific mistake. you had putin invading ukraine and then just over one year ago, we had our most precious ally, israel under attack from iranian backed hamas terrorists. and kamala harris has turned her back on israel. and what did we see? what did we see on our college campuses. we saw a skyrocketing of anti-semitism. me ask you all, did you see that committee hearing with those college presidents now former

college presidents. that's right. i asked the presidents of penn, mit and harvard. does calling for the genocide of -- violate your university's code of conduct. and one after the other said. it depends on the context and the world heard. you're fired. five have been fired. so many to go. and you know, compare that with president trump. he us the most secure border in our nation's history. he brought us the strongest economy. he proudly supports our law enforcement. and he has and always will stand with israel.

he donald j. trump has fought for us. the american people, whether it was fighting against the sham impeachment, which i was a proud member of. president impeachment, defense team, whether it was standing up for election integrity or whether it was facing the witch hunts by new york's own tish james alvin bragg and corrupt judges. you know, after we fired joe biden and kamala, we're going to fire kathy alvin bragg, tish j. james. you're fired. as i said, president trump has fought for us. it is now our opportunity to for him and new york. we made history when. we fired nancy pelosi once and for all and flipped those five congressional seats.

we need to make history again. so nine days flat, the polls vote for president donald j. trump to save new york and save america. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. thank you very much. all right. they tell me we had a trump rally. i had no anybody. yeah. i tell you, he's in there right now, but i'm ready to do one thing. his mettle, george is making ready for in two days. and we're going to make 45, 47. you you know, there's a lot that we can do and there's a lot of things going on right now. but, you know, when i look out across this audience right now, i see a lot of strong women. i see a lot of big patriots who

are here. it's time to get on feet and get ready for the next president of the states. when we understand what is at stake, they make no choice except the right choice. when we understand what is stake, there is no wonder why. there's only one choice for the next president of the united states. and that's donald j. you have been seeing a lot of stuff on tv. i mean, maybe you in the back, you'll be seeing this stuff on tv when they? tell me. they tell me that harris is going to fix it. well, i mean, i'm not real sure how you fix something. you were the one they broke. so we're going to have a little audience participation tonight. oh, are you ready? i'm going to say what was wrong, and you're going to tell me who

broke it. and we all care. oh, we all pay back. i seem to find an open border on the south is broken and broken. i, i seem to see those that are being trafficking drugs coming across our border, into our communities, making us less safe. who is the one that broke it? you know, went into the grocery store and i see the price of eggs. i see the price of bread. i see price of meat. and i have a vice president who tells me, well, you know, prices are higher. well, you know what? there's a reason because of that is because the prices are broken. so who broke it. but, you know, also, i have a world that is looking on fire right now. i have iran that thinks that we're weak. i have hezbollah and the houthis and others in the world think that america is standing. i have russia and china looking over the shoulder in a weak military. and we left it when donald left it, we were the strongest in the

world and we can be. so i a question who broke our in the world. but here's the good news. just as joy come into the new morning, it in two days it's going to come i'm telling you right now the one is going to fix it is donald j. trump. so if the border is broke, who's to fix it. if the streets are not safe, who's going to fix it? if the prices are too high. who's going to fix it? if our standing in the world is down, who's going to bring us back? and right now, i'll tell as we look ahead, as we put our gaze

higher, i see a country that is coming. just like i said during impeachment he's put his head down. he's going to move forward. he loves you. he loves america. and we're going to do our part because in two days, 45 becomes 47. and he's going to start here, right here. so there's only one thing left. who's the solution to what we're looking for? so one last time, as you can hear us in the as we go away, there's one solution to our problem. one person who broke it, harris broke it. donald j. trump will fix it. trump, trump. trump, trump. what. oh, this time. all right.

as you can see. i'm not just i'm don gothic maga. well, it's the energy in this room is incredible. all. what? what a what a great group of people. it's. it's all right. i've only got one question for you, and then i'm getting out of here. chris is your stage. but we set up goes. yes. how much do you think we can rip out of this wasted. $6.5 trillion harris biden budget? well, i think we can do at least ¥2 trillion. yes 2 trillion. i mean, at the end of the day, you're being taxed you're being taxed. all government spending is taxation. so whether it's direct taxation

or all government spending, it's either it becomes inflation or it's a threat. taxation. your money is being wasted. and the department of government efficiency is going to fix that. we're going to get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook. and among americans, just not enough. it's just going to be great. america is going to reach heights that it has never seen before. the future is going to be amazing. now. you guys are awesome. honestly, this is like.

one oh yeah. i mean, this is. this is like this the kind of positive energy that america is all about. yeah. you saying usa, usa, usa, usa. oh, yes. no i have a i have something i want to ask you to though, because obviously we're somewhat preaching to the converted in this stadium. but there is a lot of people out there who who need to vote for president trump. okay. so the like this is a real

battle. this a real election battle. so you need to get friends and family to vote, make sure they vote, vote early this is important. we're going to be putting up a scorecard. okay. an early vote scorecard. state by state. county by county what is the scorecard? vote. early vote now. yeah. make it make make the the margin victory so big that you what can happen. massive, overwhelming swing of every swing state and even some of the states that aren't people

don't think are swing states massive victory yet everyone friends family people on the street put the signs up, put the hat on. let's go. ladies and please welcome to the stage. the vik rama swami. lighting inside. miss crowd taking. that's rising steel raw. i'm standing in the same that is no he's that and sobbing this is how legends are made. i'll tell you something i don't

the polls i don't follow the pundits but i follow the energy. and this does not feel like second place energy in here tonight. i had a friend of mine a smart guy he's a billionaire texted this morning and he said, why the hell are you guys wasting your time in new york city instead of go into a swing state, you want to? i told him, i said, welcome to 2024, new york is a swing state. i got a message for kamala harris tonight. we'll in the joy in new york city tonight. we. and the only celebration bigger than this one right now is going to be on the evening of november

5th, when we send donald j. trump back to the white house as your 47th president and commander in chief. and i'm around here. there's only one man who is going to be more happy than everybody else in this room when that happens. and that is going to be a man by the name of joe biden actually, he is so -- about what they did and you know, he's thinking it, but i'm going to say it. identity politics never works in america. when you select somebody on the basis of their race and their gender, it always up being a disaster. and i'm actually talking about tim walsh this time, by the way, it goes both. so listen up, guys. last year i became the youngest person ever to run for u.s. president. as a republican. and thank you.

i appreciate. and i'll tell you something about my generation. we are lost. we are hungry to be part of something bigger than ourselves. yet we can't even answer what it means to be an american today, in the middle of a national identity crisis. faith in god, patriot, taoism, hard work, family these things have disappeared only be replaced by wokeism and transgenderism. klein, rheumatism, covid ism, depression, anxiety, fentanyl, suicide these are symptoms of a deeper void of purpose and meaning our country. and right now we need step up and fill that void with our own vision. answer what does it mean to be an american in the year 2024? it means we believe the ideals of 1776. it means we believe in merit, that the best person gets the job regardless of their color, that you get ahead in this

country, not on the color of your skin, but on the content of your character and your contributions. that's why we're done with the work the agenda bringing in mirror autocracy to america. it means we believe in the rule of law. and i say this as the kid of legal immigrants to this country, that means your first act of entering this country cannot break the law and. that is why if we've had the largest influx of illegals into this country in american, we will have the largest mass deportation in american history that is now racist or xenophobic. that is what it means to stand for the rule of law in the united states of america. it means we believe in self-governance and that the people we elect to run the government, god's sake, ought to be the ones who actually run the government, not unelected bureaucrats in the deep state that are running the show today. so you want another mass deportation?

let's get 3 million federal bureaucrats out. the dc bureaucracy, that's the mass deportation. this is the country. what does it mean to be american? it means we have elections we can trust and believe in. and that means single day voting on election day as a national holiday with paper ballots and. government issued i.d. to match the voter file. that's how we save the country after we win it. this time by voting early. these are not black ideas. white ideas are american ideals that set this country into motion. we're in a war to revive them and right now we need the commander in chief who will lead us to victory. that is your next president, donald j. trump. if you want to seal border vote. trump if you want to restore law order in this country, vote

trump. if you want to grow the economy in this country, vote trump if you want to revive national pride in this country, vote trump. if you want to stay out of world war three in this country, vote trump. if you want to make america great again, vote trump. i'm going to give you one more reason to vote trump. and this is the one the media in the back. they won't talk about this. but they know it to be true. donald trump is actually the president who will unite this country actually. and we don't talk that in our america first includes all americans regardless of their race, their gender or their sexual orientation. our message to black americans tonight is this we want you what we want for every safe neighborhoods, good jobs, clean streets, a country where you are judged based on the content,

your character, not the color of skin or your political beliefs. that's the america we know. our message to gay americans tonight is this you're free to marry who. you want if you want, without the government standing in your way. but that mean that boys get to compete with girls and girls sports or you do genital mutilation and chemical castration on our children our to every legal in this country is this you're like my parents but our message to every illegal and look if you came legally get the same american dream that everybody does work hard get ahead make contributions to this country, love the nation. and that's our message. legal immigrants. but our message to every illegal immigrant is also we will return you to your country of origin,

not because all bad people, but because you broke the law. and the united states. america is founded on the of law. our message to my generation, the millennials, is this you were sold a false bill of goods. you were told you become a gender studies major in california. you somehow that get your head start in the american dream when it hasn't worked out that way. dead on your shoulders. the iraq and afghanistan wars. yes, it's true. you were lied to. but we can't just be cynical about our country because this is still last, best hope that we have the free world. and our message to gen is this you're going to be the generation that saves the country. you want to be a rebel. 18 years old, stand up on college campus and call yourself a conserver to be proud of it. say you want to get married, have kids, raise family and have a good job. that's how we win in america. we don't have to be this nation in decline. we are still on our way up.

we're still that country where we will look our children in the eye and mean it. we tell them you get ahead in the united states with your own hard work, your own commitment, your own dedication, and that you know what you are free to speak your mind at every step of the way. that is the american dream. that is what we are running to and that is what we get when we send donald trump back to the white house this november. thank you. god bless you. and the great state of new york. and may god bless our united states of america. thank you god bless. thank you, guys. scott, i can. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage former congresswoman tulsi gabbard.

coming back here to the of the drama in a fight. to save this man's to defend the kingdom of the lands that hello new york. join me as i say these words we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and that we are endowed by our creator with unalienable rights. that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as. as we gather here today on this

historic occasion, we stand together as proud americans and that these very rights are under attack. so we face this historic crossroads where our freedom and our future is in our hands. there's never been a more clear choice in any election in my life and our ability to live in a truly peaceful and free and prosperous country is on the line. i love you, too. and it is that love. that love that brings us together here today. love for freedom, that love for our country, and love for each other. as fellow americans, as children of god that compels us to take action to save our country and defend our freedom. now, this choice that we have

before us is very personal to me. i'm a lieutenant colonel in the army. reserve. i've served now for over 21 years. i've deployed to different war zones three times over that period, and i've seen the cost of war for brothers and sisters who paid the ultimate price. i carry their memories and their sacrifice in my heart every day. so this choice that we have, us as americans, is it's important to us. it's important those of us who serve, who have volunteered to put our lives on the line for the safety security and freedom of our country and our people. and it's critical to all of us. here is the choice that we have a vote for kamala harris is a

vote for -- cheney, and it's a vote for a war. more war likely world war three and nuclear war. a vote for donald trump is a vote for a man, wants to end wars, not start. and who has demonstrated already that he has the courage and strength to stand up and fight for peace. a vote for kamala harris is a vote for open borders where known violent criminals and islamist terrorists are streaming across our borders, placing us at risk. a vote for donald trump is a vote for secure borders and safe communities and a confidence that he will seek out those who seek to do us harm and get them out. a vote for kamala harris is a

vote for economic hardship, high costs of living, poverty and homelessness, and a vote for donald trump is a vote for economic prosperity and opportunity for every single one of us as americans. a vote for kamala harris is a vote for censorship and a complete erosion of our fundamental and constitutional rights and freedoms. a vote for donald trump is a vote for someone will defend freedom and everyone of our god given rights that are enshrined. the constitution and bill of rights. so the choice is ours. history will look on us at this moment for the choice that we make. did we choose war or peace? did we choose poverty or price? did we choose censorship or

freedom. our freedom and our future is in our hands. we have just a few days to complete this fail mission that we have us to save our country. nothing short of our future is on the line. so now, just as we've gathered here today in this historic place and this historic time, we will gather all across this country people of every race, ethnicity and creed to stand together and defend our freedom and ensure our right life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as. now is the time for us to send donald trump to the white house to be the 47th president of the united states, where we can stand together and make america great again.

thank you so much. let's get it done. hello. hi, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 25th administrator of the united states. small business administration, linda mcmahon. thank. well, hello milwaukee and good evening, america. let me take one second to say hello to my fellow delegates from connecticut. my name is linda mcmahon and i am the chair of the america first policy institute. i am perhaps one of the few people who's been to call donald trump a colleague and a boss but

he's also a friend. let me share a little story that's probably not the typical donald trump story. i had a meeting scheduled him at mar a lago. and as he welcomed me, his four year old granddaughter ran up to him. he scooped her up with delight and asked her, who's the most beautiful girl in the world. and she said, me. then he asked in, who do you love the most? in the world? and she said, you grandpa. and he kissed on both cheeks. then she whisked off his hat, lost his hair and his smile with the love that only a grandfather could have given. i first met donald trump when i was the ceo of world wrestling entertainment. wow. for fun, he became part of some

of the most compelling and highest rated storylines in the company's history. then when he became president, i was honored to serve in his cabinet running the small business administration. i traveled the country talking to business and job creators. they knew they had a president who understood them and fought for them. he knew that small businesses are the engine of the american economy and the trump tax cuts proved to be like rocket fuel for them. almost every business owner i spoke with was using their tax savings to grow their businesses. and ladies and gentlemen, the u.s. was flourishing, but no moment. during my time in the government was more poignant for me than one that happened in 2018. i traveled with the president to

view the destruction which hurricane florence had levied on my hometown of newburn, north carolina. i stepped off of air force one and walked side by side with the president of the united states through the hangar where my father had been a shop foreman. and my had been a budget analyst. i watched donald trump walk through neighborhoods of my child comforting those had suffered such great damages because he was a builder. he talked to them about what it would take to rebuild, what kind of materials they should use. and he didn't show a personal interest he was one of them. but now joe biden and the democrats want to penalize small businesses again by hiking their taxes. but when he's reelected, donald

trump will make those tax cuts permanent. and he will also offer new tax cuts like no taxes on tips. instead of taxing america companies. donald trump put tariffs on china that raised billions of dollars and protected american industries. and if reelected, he'll do it again. president trump, a job creator and the best friend, american have ever had in the white house. he is a champion of the forgotten and women. as i have experienced firsthand. but the media doesn't like acknowledge that very often. donald is not only a fighter and

gentlemen, he is good man. he has the heart of a lion and the soul, a warrior. and i believe that if necessary, he would stand the gates of hell to defend country. he loves this country, and he would do to defend it and to protect us from all harm. i am confident that he will make america great again and because he did it before. so i ask all of you here tonight and those of you who are watching home to reelect donald j. trump as the 47th president of the united. thank you and good night. ladies and gentlemen, former

paratrooper congressman and new york state gubernatorial candidate lee zeldin zeldin. hello, wisconsin i'm lee zeldin from new york. a nation led by president trump is a nation strong, safer and more secure as former 82nd airborne paratrooper paratrooper. i want the military focused on being world's greatest fighting

force, not its social experiment. we need a president, our friends as friends and our adversaries as our adversaries. his understanding, the only respect, strength. not weakness. i was on the house foreign affairs committee. three presidents, but only one ended wars without starting new ones. president donald trump. as one of two jewish republicans in congress. it was amazing to witness history making progress.

strengthening u.s. israel relations ship under president trump. moving our embassy. israel to jerusalem. recognizing israel's sovereignty over the golan heights. and launching the abraham accords, which no one said was possible. solomon and the isis khalifi were eliminated. president trump withdrew from the iran deal. stop those inside. ransom payments and crippled iran. and with maximum pressure pressure.

but everything went downhill. under biden yes the guy who advised obama not to take out. joe biden advised the mission that killed osama bin laden. as an american and especially as a new yorker, that's unforgivable. even in his prime, he bad judgment. and it's only gotten worse with age. we cannot count on biden to make this kind of crucial. 3 a.m. decision. heck, we can't rely on him at three in the afternoon. he has refills filled iran's

coffers since october seventh. biden has pinned third to anti-semites, who cheer hamas's attack attack. all while american -- are still being held hostage in gaza by biden. turn 13 blue star families into gold star families. with his fatal withdrawal from afghanistan and then he lied about during last month's debate claiming that no servicemen had died under his watch. we must elect president. whether building an iron dome defense shield at home

countering china and other actors abroad, or securing our borders he will make america strong and respected again. president trump risks everything for us. we him back in the white house now more than ever before. to. make america great again. we must first and god willing, we expand the republic in majority in the united states house of representatives. we will flip the united senate. we are going to elect j.d.

vance, our next. vice president. and will make donald j. trump the 47th president of these united states. thank you. god bless you. god bless president and his family. and god bless, america. peggy peggy, to this guy to try to not only fight this land to keep our hallowed new york city city. hello to all of you in america's most iconic city, the city that gave us the who gave up everything to serve his nation the once and the future president of the united states, donald j.

trump. only in america would a little girl raised by a single mom from, a tiny town called glen rose, texas, ascend to work the west wing for the most consequence president of our lifetime and only in america. that same small town texas end up here in this incredible city with all of you at the world's most famous arena. let's go one. tell, tell me. tell me. who here love loves. president donald trump. then you are at the right rally. you know a few days back, kamala

harris heard someone at one of her rallies say cry, ask, is lord, let's it up. she said you know what she said, you are at the wrong, sir. but maybe once in her life, kamala harris was right. they at the wrong rally because rally where people believe in faith believe in america and believe that we are one nation under god is right here, is here. so let me ask you, what you believe. new york. do you believe in america, you at the right rally. do you believe in the power of

faith and that america needs. god. you are the right rally. do you believe that america needs back the trump economy wherever american had a real chance at the american dream when jobs and how homes and families and care where it works. do you believe that new york city. do you believe that deserve to be protected hid from illegal aliens who come into our communities. and the best way to do that is the largest deportation in american history. do you believe that. then you at the right rally. our way of life, our history and

our are all at stake. we don't mind standing on the. for donald trump because he is the one who taught us that one man. plus the truth really is a major ity. and we also understand what that means. it means everything. everything have been everything that was meant depends upon what happens right now. with just nine days left. on behalf of and over capacity. six times. oversold. madison square garden arena. tens of millions. tens of millions of grateful. patriotic. across this country. hundreds of millions of people across the world. i close today with this message to my friend, my mentor, my former boss. mr. president, you everything on

the line for us? even your allies. and you have always had our backs. and now it's our turn. and we deliver for you. donald trump. my friends, we are going to win. and when donald j. trump, america will win. now let's go get our country back. god bless you. god bless america. and god bless donald. trump thank you all so much. thank you. for. ladies. and gentlemen, please welcome governor christie of south

dakota. thank you. good evening. you all look fantastic. i love the cowboy hats and a shout out to south dakota. i hope i said i'm governor kristi noem from the great state of south dakota. leadership has consequences. it matters who's in the white house now. i've been governor under both president trump and biden, and people ask me all the time, what's the biggest difference? and i tell them that president trump honored the constitution. he let me do my job.

and he let me keep my people free. now, leadership on the state level, it matters too. it certainly mattered in south. i am so proud to say that. south dakota's strong economy has been a beacon of freedom. america. most of you. most of you, probably first heard about me during covid and you because south dakota was the only state in the country that stayed open for business. we didn't mandate we never ordered single business or a church to. i never even defined what an essential business was because i don't believe that the government the authority to tell you that your business isn't essential.

when other states pushing mandates and lockdowns instead in south dakota we hit the gas. we embraced liberty. we told our story and we invited people to come and to enjoy our beautiful state. now, all of the things that conservatives have always talked about, we just did it and it worked. our economy took off. and since i've been governor, we broke the national record for the lowest unemployment rate in american history. at 1.8% in south dakota. everybody works. we paid off state debts and bonds. we fixed dams and bridges. we built roads. we a fully funded pension plan and a credit rating. broke records for surplus.

and we balance our budget every single year. and last year last year in south dakota, we passed the largest tax cut in south dakota history history. under my administration, in our state have gone 36%. women owned businesses are thriving. we also have the highest rate in the nation. people are having babies because they're. and in south dakota, love babies. our health challenges have gone down. our suicide rates are declining. and we are the number one state in the country for a decline in

overdoses. people have hope. we're growing so fast that we needed more workers to catch up. so we launched the most successful workforce recruitment campaign in the history of south dakota, and they have come by the thousands to join us and to live with us. do you guys remember those ads? i was a really lousy plumber and a really electrician. do you remember those? well, since we started ads, we have seen a 78% increase in licensed plumbers in the state of south dakota. we've seen a 44% increase in electricians in our state. now, people aren't moving to south dakota for our beaches or for our beautiful january. they are moving to our state for opportunity and for freedom and of this happened because our people bold we took action and i

was strong now south dakota proved that freedom will make america wealthy again. and with president trump in, the white house, with senator j.d. vance, by his side, we will prove it across. america. listen, two days ago, the whole world changed. evil displayed itself in the very way through a cowardly act. an innocent american lost his life. and we will continue to lift family up in our prayers. every single day prior this week. we already that president donald trump was a fighter. he is the toughest man that i have ever met. nobody has endured more than what he has gone through. they've attacked his reputation. they impeached him.

they tried to bankrupt him and they unjustly prosecuted. but even in the perilous moment this week, his instinct was to stand and to fight. and to. donald j. trump is, our man in the arena. he will never stop fighting for us. he will never stop. and now he is bringing of us together. now i know that many of you are angry. but now is the time to unite. and we have to get to work. we have to win the hearts and minds of every single american. wake them with truth and with wisdom. we need to listen to them. you can't win people over by arguing them. visit with your neighbors.

at your job. at your church. at the gas station. or at the grocery store. listen, there are moments in. our history often after great hardship and tragedy, when true leaders unite our country. at one time, president lincoln united our country. he delivered my favorite presidential address of all time. in fact, the only speech or poem song that i ever made my kids memorize when they were young. when they were little. it was the gettysburg address, and it was delivered during our nation's bloodiest conflict. that speech so inspired people that they continued to fight for years and they lost loved ones. in order to preserve this union. we call the united states of america.

now, at time, president lincoln encouraged to take increased devotion that this nation, god shall have a new birth of freedom, and that a government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not from this earth. like lincoln in the midst of our pain and division. donald trump is calling us be touched by the better angels our nature. as paul wrote in second timothy god has not given us the spirit of fear. but of power and of love and a sound mind. must not be afraid. even in our darkest. we have never once given hope. so don't quit on, america. if we lose this country, else will we go.

that provides more freedom, opportunity for our kids and our grandkids. and i've got three grandkids and i'm counting on a whole more. and yes, tomorrow we can be messy, but there is a great invisible strength to a people's union. we have shown the world that we can endure sacrifice and. that we can still unite. we should still aspire to be worthy of this union. america president donald j. trump is lsuch a time as this. so now i need you to to work. get out there. go it. don't quit. keep. keep uniting. keep talking to people. win the hearts and minds. and may god bless you. and may god continue to bless the great united states of america. thank you. is donald j. trump going to win the great state of nevada.

are you his army sent from god to make sure we defeat the injustice. washington, dc. well, let's mobilize as one silver staters are going to deliver the west. donald j. trump and we're going to deliver this election for the greatest president we have seen in our lifetimes. but we are up a behemoth. just think about it. in the 21st century, the united states, america. did you think a political party would illegally spend campaign dollars to hire foreign intelligence asset from overseas and funnel fake false into the federal bureau of investigation only to have them go to a secret surveillance court, lie to a federal judge just so that they could illegally surveil their political. and as the president says, they're coming after you. he's just standing in the way. well i'm here to tell you, it's time for us to stand with him and behind donald j.

trump. because if you don't think, those government gangsters have quieted down your haven't been paying attention. just last week, what did we hear from the department of in merrick garland and chris wray? it's russia, russia, russia. all over again. they've illegally surveilled hundreds of thousands of citizens. the government gangsters in washington d.c. have one main operation, an arm that is a two tier system of justice that, they choose to weaponize, politicize, because we care about america than they do. and they fear the president's. if donald j. trump because entering his first term when i served under him, he was out there, out the corruption in washington dc. and if he comes back, not a republican or democratic thing, it's unit party, swamp monster thing. if he comes, donald trump will

permanently retire the swamp monster class. we are facing biggest projection con artists of lifetime with harris, the radical left wing. they accuse us of every single thing they doing. they try to imprison our great leader illegally, time and time again. they raid our houses of worship. they tell us where our can go to school and what they should learn. well, i don't know about you, but i want our future know history, math and economics. i don't want them to know gender fluidity. the age of ten. we have the greatest leader coliseum is built and donald j. trump is our champion. he is our juggernaut justice. but we have the martial behind them because we have the truth. they don't have that. kamala harris does not have a single national security policy that is better than president trump. if she did, she have implemented

it four years ago. instead of stealing his ideas. and when it comes to national security where they were serving as his deputy director of national intelligence or his chief of staff. the mission was simple. when i walked into the oval office, president trump said, we are going to kill the emirs isis. we are going to wipe out al qaeda. senior leadership. we are going to end the forever wars are going to crush the narco traffickers are going to stop the ccp, fentanyl and we are going to restore american diplomacy overseas. i said, roger that, boss. who wouldn't want to sign up for that. we are going stop behind donald trump's brilliant leadership. i have seen more courage and conviction in this one finger than i have seen in ten lifetimes. in ten countries, this man is to stand for america and we will stand with him. we will stop sending money to the forever wars. we will take care of our 55,000 homeless veterans.

first. our men and women on, the thin blue line come first, our teachers come first. our first responders come first. our children come first. illegal immigrants do not first in this country. there is illegal. we here. and just like thousands of few i found myself legally here this country. my father fled a genocidal dictatorship and had the american dream for his children. that american dream is alive and well in donald trump's america for each and every one of your children. that american dream not alive for kamala harris. she wants to rob you of that dream and seize the truth from you and establish a dynasty in washington, dc that tears apart this world. well, i want a president that goes overseas and ends the forever wars. i want a president that doesn't fund the iranian mullahs and $7 billion of terrorism funding activities activities. and you don't have to gamble on

donald j. trump he took them on over and over again and asked this who do you think the current hostages americans and others that are being held by the terrorists who invaded israel started of the world war. do you think they want kamala or do you think they want donald who rescued who rescued 54 hostages and detained these around the world that is more than every president before him combined. we will not the government gangsters to leave a disastrous withdrawal in afghanistan. they desecrated our dead donald trump had an intelligence base plan worked. i led the effort to withdraw out of afghanistan and he said we are not setting a political timeline our men and women are too important. donald had zero casualties during his withdrawal plan, which we handed off and joe biden and kamala harris lit on fire. kamala harris doesn't even have the decency to call the families of the 13. and you know how, those 13 brave

warriors died. harris and biden made the political decision to let terrorists of bagram air force base and. one of them strapped a suicide bomb to his vest and blew up our heroes. then they, milley and austin, come in and thump their in drone strike. seven children. that is not justice that murder. so if you are with me and if you with the greatest president of our lifetime then it is up to us to stand him. it is up to us to unify this country. we are not to separate. we are not the racist. we are the greatest set of americans we have ever had. and we an equivalent, powerful in donald j. trump. so i leave you with the following. our mission is simple just to do exactly what our brave leader donald j. trump has always done and put americans first and not to run this country by diy and white rage and climate. i. i am proud to be an indian

american, am proud to call las vegas my home. i moved out here after our administration. you all have welcomed me with open arms and i cannot thank you enough. i will fight every single day for this great state. and as president trump said, if we win nevada, we win the whole -- thing. i will take the fight to every across this country for our great leader, because donald j. trump deserves our effort. love our conviction and our desire. i am going to go on a government gangster's manhunt washington dc for our great president who's coming with me. >> after becoming the longest-serving party leader in senate history mitch mcconnell is stepping down from his leadership position this week. watch c-span tonight at 8:00

eastern as we explore the life and career of mitch mcconnell. 17 years of leading fellow republicans and plans for his remaining two years in office and other topics. our guest is the deputy washington, d.c. bureau chief of the associated press and author of the new mcconnell biography. join us tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. ♪ >> witness democracy in action with c-span. experience history as it unfolds with c-span's live coverage this january. as republicans take control of both chambers of commerce and the swearing in of the 47th president of united states. do not miss the opening day of the 119th congress, the swearing in of new members and the first day of leadership and the new

senate majority leader on monday, january 6, live from the house chamber witness kamala harris -- historic session will confirm donald trump as the 2024 presidential election. on january 20, tune in for all-day coverage of the presidential inauguration as donald trump takes the oath of office becoming the 47th president of the united states. stay with c-span for live unfiltered coverage of the 119th congress and the presidential inauguration. c-span, democracy unfiltered. >> coming up a three-part discussion looking at democracy and the rule of law. the event focused on the 2024 election results, history of the supreme court and the presidency. the society for rule of law hosted the summit in washington, d.c.

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